Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Augustus White, for many years a benefactor of the library, died on May 6, 1927. He had occupied a leading position in the ranks of American private collectors. A. S. W. Rosenbach of New York, one of the most prominent bookmen of the country, wrote of him: "Mr. William A. White . . . was among the earliest of our collectors to gather the choice and alluring volumes of the great Elizabethans. His judgment was excellent and he had a vivid understanding of this golden period, equalled by few scholars: He did not hesitate to lend his finest volumes to any student...
...Swope Park, with its bathing beach, golf courses, tennis courts, bridle paths, zoo is one of the happiest things that ever happened to a city, though the buzzards that sometimes circle over it, especially during drought, are reminders of the gruesome death of the city's benefactor...
What must have been the feelings of George Arliss, famed actor in The Green Goddess, Old English, The Merchant of Venice, frequent benefactor of needy actors, and councilor of the Actors' Equity Association when he read last week two communications addressed to the last named organization and signed by 60 actors and actresses. The purport of these epistles was rudely apparent; the 60 actors and actresses wished Mr. Arliss, long one of the major ornaments of the U. S. stage, to be excluded from holding office in Equity because he is a citizen of Great Britain...
...England in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the manufacture of cotton goods was a comparatively simple matter. Nearly every town of any importance had its red brick factory owned by a thrifty Yankee who combined the qualities of feudal lord, social mogul, town benefactor. His employees admired him, had simple wants, were content with frugal wages. Raw cotton from the slave states was cheap and plentiful. The New England mills had a virtual monopoly of U. S. textile manufactures. The thrifty Yankee prospered, passed his factory down from generation to generation. The Civil War upset many a factory...
...Harvard's anonymous benefactor not made his gift conditional upon the raising of the other money required, construction could start immediately upon the swimming pool, and this facility would probably be ready to meet the undoubted demand a little earlier than the rest of the building. That this building will eventually be completed in its entirety can not be doubted, for all things, even Hemenway, must some day end. But the swimming pool seems to be the most needed of improvements, and were the gift of the anonymous donor not made conditional upon the prior raising of the total fund...